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What we called "the body" was this great, wonderful metaphor for human struggle and all, I think for a lot of them the body is explained third-hand or fourth-hand, on Facebook.
Kris Wilton: Brainly And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones Kris Wilton 2011
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The information is fourth-hand but is the strongest statement yet from a regulator that Corzine may have personally known customer funds were diverted for firm use.
Jon Corzine Said To Have Known About Misuse Of MF Global Customer Funds 2011
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What we called "the body" was this great, wonderful metaphor for human struggle and all, I think for a lot of them the body is explained third-hand or fourth-hand, on Facebook.
Kris Wilton: Brainly And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones Kris Wilton 2011
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Not the same as spending the afternoon in the Reading Room of the British Library, I know (and I certainly would never suggest that viewing the MS fourth-hand is the best way to work).
My new baby Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Most of the men were too nervous to sleep, so they kept themselves busy by passing around the latest fourth-hand information.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Simply by holding resentful, angry, irrational beliefs, you are that third-hand or fourth-hand influence.
Deepak Chopra: Choose Your Epidemic: Tea Parties or "Yes We Can" 2010
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No one can account for third-hand and even fourth-hand influences.
Deepak Chopra: Choose Your Epidemic: Tea Parties or "Yes We Can" 2010
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Not the same as spending the afternoon in the Reading Room of the British Library, I know (and I certainly would never suggest that viewing the MS fourth-hand is the best way to work).
Archive 2008-02-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Most of the men were too nervous to sleep, so they kept themselves busy by passing around the latest fourth-hand information.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Most of the men were too nervous to sleep, so they kept themselves busy by passing around the latest fourth-hand information.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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